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Cap Anson
Baseball is an outdoor sport in which a pitcher pitches a hard, fist sized ball to the hitting area of a batter. The batter hits the hard ball with a tapered, smooth, cylindrical bat made up of wood or metal. The batsman scores by running counter-clockwise within the four markers called the bases arranged at the corners of a diamond. Baseball is sometimes called hardball to differentiate it from similar games such as softball.
Cap Anson was a professional baseball player in the National Association and Major League Baseball for the Rockford Forest Citys, Philadelphia Athletics, and Chicago White Stockings Colts. He was born on April 11th, 1852 in Marshalltown, Iowa. He was elected to Hall of Fame by Veterans Committee in 1939. He played an important role in 1885 World Series and the 1886 World Series. He also managed Philadelphia Athletics in 1875, Chicago White Stockings or Colts from 1879 to 1897 and New York Giants in 1898.
He also batted over .300 during 20 of those seasons, and accumulated over 3,000 hits during an illustrious career. When he retired, he owned records in numerous categories, including games, hits, at-bats, doubles and runs. He also served as a player-manager for Chicago, earning over 1,200 wins and accumulating five National League pennants. His best season was in 1881, when he led the league in batting .399, 175 total bases and 82 RBIs, Runs Batted In. His record includes 2523 games with average .333. As a manager he was .575 percent successful in winning the match. He died on April 14th, 1922.
Cap Anson with all his dedication and devotion in his play has achieved many hallmarks in his overall baseball-playing career. He had the ability of defeating the opponent easily by giving some extra hard work and efforts.
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